Description of Incident: The video was selected by a jury for the final competition, and was screening in the videoroom, after 2 days of exibition, some comision of the goverment visit the instalations of the festival and press to the direction of the festival to take out the pieze, all the program in the videoroom was retired (it was a dvd with all the selected videos)

Results of Incident: A lot of people didn´t see the work.

now you can watch the video in youtube

www.youtube.com the name is "skarro"

Description of Incident: While investigating 49-year-old convicted pedophile Charles Davis San Diego police discovered that Davis had in his possession various photocopies of images of naked girls in different provocative positions. There were two photos at issue: one from David Hamilton’s “Twenty Five Years as an Artist” and the other from Graham Ovenden’s “State of Grace”. Davis told the police that he photocopied the images from two reference books in the San Diego downtown public library. Davis was arrested and tried in April 2000 for possessing child pornography. San Diego Superior Court Judge William Kennedy convicted Davis of the charges against him ruling that the defendant obtained the two books from the library for sexual purposes. In his ruling the Judge stated, “[The books] are not for art’s sake but for sexual purposes”.

Results of Incident: The discovery that Charles Davis, a convicted pedophile, had obtained provocative images of young girls from books in the San Diego public library system led to a review of the library books in question. Judge Kennedy’s ruling in the Davis case prompted library officials to assemble a new panel to review the books’ contents to see if they need to be pulled from the library’s art reference collection. Library officials have been reviewing the books in question and working with San Diego police investigators and the city attorney to decide what to do.

Description of Incident: A local of Honolulu, Daria Fand’s painting, “The Last of the Believes” was supposed to be a part of the city’s Women of Art exhibit at Honolulu Hale in March 2001; but, at the last minute, the painting depicting a nude woman was banned from the show. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts found the piece to be too controversial and religiously offensive.

Results of Incident: The ACLU took action, filling a lawsuit against the city stating Fand’s painting was wrongly barred from display. One of the secondary goals of the lawsuit, says local ACLU director Brent White, is to "prevent future censorship by this city at future art shows."

Description of Incident: After the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in the summer of 1999, the sculptor David Lewis felt that Mr. Kennedy should be honored along with his father. So, in August 2000, Lewis unveiled a proposed $300,000 sculpture of the two, to be placed in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The town council of Barnstable, in which Hyannis is located, gave its approval. So did the Kennedy family. In August 2000, the project was put on hold. For although the president died when his son was barely 3 years old, the sculpture depicts them both as adults. It was a historical anachronism that many residents felt was in poor taste.

Results of Incident: Lewis' sculpture tributing John F. Kennedy Jr. was intended to be placed in Hyannis, Mass. but was never completed due to objections by residents in the area. Lewis did create small versions of the sculpture for private sale.

Description of Incident: Parents attending the Advanced Training Institute International’s home schooling convention at the Sacramento Convention Center in early July 2000 were bothered and offended by the nude statue of Poseidon. Expressing their objection to the seemingly harmless display of public nudity, the parents were given permission from city officials to clothe the statue during the three-day event. On day one they dressed him in a toga, on day two in a gold shirt and khaki trousers, and on day three in slacks, a dress shirt and a tie. Jim Voeller, director of the Advanced Training Institute said, “A lot of the parents would object to the display of public nudity. We didn’t deface the statue, and we got permission to cover it for the conference.” However, not all Sacramento residents were happy to see Poseidon dressed up, and during the conference, the clothing was repeatedly taken off the statue. Sacramento resident, Eric Ford, was caught removing Poseidon’s pants by a conference official; he later said, “That statue is for the whole city, not for them. You don’t go to a city and decide to change the city’s artwork because you think it is not appropriate.” As a form of protest, Ford and other city residents later removed the necktie from Poseidon and used it to blindfold the statue.

Results of Incident: City officials defended the decision to clothe Poseidon. Steve Hammond, president of the convention bureau, said the home schoolers had brought a lot of money to the city.

Description of Incident: The replica of the anatomically correct masterpiece, considered one of the world’s greatest treasures was put up outside the “Fountain and Falls” shop by the store’s manager, Chuck Cole. The statue was placed in front of the business along a busy thoroughfare through the small town of Polk County, Florida. Residents in the town of 3,800 objected to the naked statue bringing their complaints to City Hall. “I didn’t even know it was art […], to me, it’s just a naked man standing on the side of the road” said Jeanne Johnson who was among those who complained to City Hall. The controversy prompted City Manager Jim Drumm to look into the city’s code and statutes to see if the sculpture violated obscenity laws. Drumm said, “There’s nothing legally we could do about it since we can’t regulate art, but the people were demanding that we do something […]. As a matter of courtesy, we asked the store owners to put a cloth around the statue”.

Results of Incident: Ultimately, Chuck Cole, the store manager of Fountain and Falls, who put David outside the business, bowed to pressure and wrapped a cloth around the Biblical figure’s waste. Cole, did not like the request, but he obliged saying, “This is a representation of a classic masterpiece. It’s art, not obscenity.” Poking fun at the incident, Cole said he intends to replace the plain white cloth with a leopard-print bandanna: “I figure if I’m going to have to cover him, I might as well do it in style.”

Description of Incident: On May 10, 2000 Lexington photographer Sally Mann presented a slide-lecture detailing her long career in the arts at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. After receiving a letter from someone who attended the artistic lecture, Virginia's conservative republican Governor Jim Gilmore wrote a letter to interim museum director Richard B. Woodward complaining of several sexually explicit photographs shown by Mann. In the letter to Woodward the Governor wrote, “I am both shocked and dismayed that this type of exhibit occurred on state-owned property.” However, Mann, a celebrated artist, saw it very differently than the Governor; she stated: “If I considered these images pornographic, I wouldn’t be showing them […]. My perception of these images is that they are a celebration, a loving paean to a happy, 30-year-old marriage - - intimate, yes; familiar, yes; humorous, yes; but pornographic, no.”

Results of Incident:  As a result of Governor Gilmore’s objection to Mann’s show, the Governor demanded for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to form a set of guidelines to prevent “outrageous displays” at the state art museum. The VMFA has agreed to the Governors request and has created a committee, within its board of trustees to review performances, lectures, films and other events sponsored by the museum to “further support the Museum’s commitment to standards of excellence”. The current board includes Governor Gilmore’s wife, Roxane.

Description of Incident: Kevorkian’s prints were reported stolen from Danielson Art Museum, where they were to have been in the gallery’s inaugural show by Steven Tomeo, the gallery’s director. The prints were taken from the gallery by the building’s owner, John H. Tighe. Tomeo claims that Tighe told him he removed the prints from the exhibit because they were too controversial and he was in fear of liability.

Results of Incident: The Danielson police recovered the prints from Tighe and ultimately they were returned to Tomeo. Tomeo does not know what he will do with the artwork seeing as Tighe will not let him exhibit them anymore.

Description of Incident: The mural ignited a neighborhood controversy after it appeared outside a Rite Aid drugstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn in the September of 1999. Some local residents objected to the mural saying it depicted violent images that were not representative of their neighborhood. In March of 2000, City Councilman Angel Rodriguez, who had been mediating negotiations between the mural’s supporters and opponents, backed Rite Aids decision to erase the colorful 0 some say lurid – mural from its outer wall. Ethan Saffer, who represented Rite Aid in the negotiations over the mural, said: “The unfortunate impending outcome is the probable covering up of the mural. We would have liked to see a compromise, a few changed to the images.” Annie Ellman, the executive director at the Center for Anti-Violence Education said that while at one point the artists had considered making small changes, they ultimately decided to keep it as it. “It’s a piece of artwork,” she said. “We have to uphold its integrity, even if it gets whitewashed”.

Results of Incident: After the decision by Rite Aid to whitewash the mural, nearly 100 supporters of the mural gathered on March 17, 2000 in front of the drugstore chanting “Save our mural”. A few feet from the protest, a small group of opponents stood by a sigh reading “Good Neighbors Compromise.” One opponent, Theresa Hammel, whose family owns the house adjacent to the mural, said she did not feel comfortable walking her children by the controversial images that she considered violent. Ultimately, despite protest, the mural was painted over.

Description of Incident: In May 2001, the annual Artists and Models Affair fund-raiser was taking place at the Buffalo Convention Center. Piece on show at the fund-raiser included some provocative video artworks that featured nudity, including Siew-Wai Kok and Tracey McGuirl’s piece. Responding to an anonymous complaint regarding the provocative videos, Buffalo police showed up to the Artists and Models fund-raiser.

Results of Incident: While in office at Mayor of New York, Rudolph Giulani has threatened to cut funding for controversial art exhibits. His opposition to provocative art has bled into areas outside the metropolitan New York area, including Buffalo New York. The Bufallo police ordered a video unplugged that formed part of one of two artworks that were the subject of the complaint, and the second was closed by Hallwalls security staff in anticipation that the officers would object to it as well. Police officials said they forced the videos to be shut off because Hallwalls, a nonprofit organization that prides itself on encouraging provocative art, makes no effort to screen minors from attending the popular event. Patrol Chief Larry Ramunno said the officers involved did not have the authority to close down the entire event and speculated it might have been a “tongue-in-cheek” threat. But, the chief urged Hallwalls to consider setting an age limit for the event. Hallwalls officials rejected the idea of setting an age limit, though they are willing to consider posting a warning sign regarding the provocative content in the exhibition. Lucinda Finley, a member of the Hallwalls board and a UB law professor, said the Buffalo police violated the First Amendment when they coerced Hallwalls into shutting down the artworks.

Description of Incident: The modern art exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts was two-years in the making. However, in 1999, as the exhibition was coming together and the museums director saw several of the pieces to be featured in the exhibit, DIA officials became worried about the content of the show which included potentially offensive artwork combining religious and sexual themes.

Results of Incident: After two-years of preparing and planning and much anticipation, the newly appointed director of the DIA, Graham Beal, decided to shut down the modern art exhibit fearing that several of the religious and sexually themed pieces in the show would be potentially offensive. Beal’s decision to shut down the highly anticipated modern exhibit comes on the heals of the controversy in New York City over an art museum that displayed an image of the Virgin Mary that used elephant dung. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been strongly critical of the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Description of Incident: who is pulling back his overcoat, flashing the audience. Johnson City Area Arts Council (JCAAC) had agreed to display Mountain City artist Emerson Zabower’s work at the Arts Council. According to Zabower, he and a council member hung the pieces for his exhibit titled “Open Your Mind – Artwork That Makes You Think” a week before the show was dated to open to the public. After a well-attended opening reception for the exhibition, enough questions were raised that the JCAAC board rearranged the show and took down the especially controversial piece “The Philly Flasher” - Zabower’s large oil painting of a male with an attitude, featuring an open raincoat, sagging socks, no underwear and full frontal nudity. Zabower objects to the censorship of his painting claiming that when the JCAAC gave him the criteria for the show, there was nothing that said what kind of subject matter he could or could not put into the exhibit.

Results of Incident: Zabower appealed and protested the decision to the Board of Directors in order to have his work displayed for the public.The Johnson City Area Arts Council moved the work to a back room where it could be seen only by request. Spokespeople for the Council claim they are not censors. Nonetheless they have removed a work of art from the walls of their gallery.

Description of Incident: “The Last Pancake Breakfast” was put on display at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum in 2001. As a modern day re-working/re-thinking of Leonardo da Vinci’s famed religious painting “Last Supper”, Detzner’s piece has come under criticism. The Chicago-area art museum has reported that since it went on display in February 2001 they have received more than 100 calls protesting the piece.

Results of Incident: The Chicago Athenaeum museum was protested by many who found Detzner's depiction of the "Last Supper" to be religiously offensive.

Description of Incident: The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights protested Copia’s exhibit titled, “Active Ingredients” claim the exhibition was “insulting, gratuitous, and unnecessary”. The exhibit includes 35 figurines which are each about the size of a chess piece; the figurines, by the artist Antoni Miralda, depict various different characters including the pope, Fidel Castro, Santa Claus and several nuns defecating. Activists say the work by Spanish artist Antoni Miralda has no place in a museum funded in part by tax dollars, including money from Catholics. Patrick Scully, a spokesman for the Catholic League said that scores of the New York-based group’s 350,000 members nationwide who had seen or read about the exhibit had called to complain. And, on January 5, 2002, leaders sent a letter to museum officials, who responded with an e-mail defending the depictions.

Results of Incident: Copia Executive Director Peggy Loar along with other supporters of the exhibit responded to the allegations by the Catholic League explaining that the Catholic League’s unfortunate practice of sensationalizing art they haven't even seen, let alone attempted to understand, has led them to demonstrate their lack of knowledge of cultural history. The "caganer," euphemistically known as "the guy who is doing his business," is a traditional nativity scene figure in popular Catalonian tradition. Most frequently the caganer is a peasant in a red beret, but caganers also include nuns, soldiers, contemporary characters, etc. Caganers are present in private, as well as museum collections. They serve to introduce an element of down-to-earth humor into the solemnity of ritual. In addition, Loar made it known that the $55-million nonprofit museum is in large part funded by private donations, including $20 million from Mondavi. The Catholic League wrongly claimed that the museum received $75 million in public funding.

Description of Incident: According to Ken Robbins, as “Pumpkins” was about to go into production in 2004, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (S&S BFYR) who was the original publishing house for the book requested that the author/illustrator remove an image in the book that depicted a child dressed as a witch for Halloween. Robbins’ editor mentioned that in-house design and marketing people felt that a different image – one of pumpkin pie – would be better for the book. Robbins disagreed and stood his ground, demanding that the picture in question remain in the book. Eventually Robbins discussed the matter with S&S BFYR president Rick Richter, who explained that the publishing house would not publish the book in light of potential objections in the marketplace, namely from the religious right.

Results of Incident: In July 2005, after Robbins decided to take the project back from S&S, he contacted Neal Porter at Roaring Brook Press. Roaring Brook Press agreed to keep the picture of the child dressed up as a witch in the book, and, “Pumpkins” went into production in the summer of 2005, scheduled for release in August 2006. To date, the book has sold 20,000 copies, and, so far there has been no backlash from the religious right.